This is a very good point. The other issue is security. The little mechanic shop that has no dynamic content, technically should be static pages, so when it's left alone and not updated for 3 years it doesn't get hacked by some WordPress vulnerability.

I looked at that, and thought "ha, that is a funny and obviously fake screenshot of a headline, created to ridicule photomatt for being petty in his fight with his company's biggest competitor".

Then, after closing this tab I did a double take and thought: maybe it's actually real?

And, it turns out, yeah, he really actually did that (after a court injunction required them to remove the checkbox which required users to pledge that they were "not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise"):

😂

he's not wrong, though

Billionaire power is corrosive to maturity; you can make everyone do what you want, so why find common ground or compromise when you can just throw a shitfit and demand that people agree that pineapple is tasty?

Just think, they could've spent this energy making WordPress not suck for Kubernetes deployments instead, but that's fine, we can settle for being told what to think and feel instead.

🤡

Can't wait for Google to add a required login checkbox that says "I accept that Jesus Christ is the one true Lord and Savior"...

And I'm being downvoted. Cute.

Keep em coming, kids. Nothing I've said is wrong.

Is this real?

Sorry, i'm already partial to banana-mascarpone pizza.

Huh? PHP wasn't the issue

PHP 7 or 8 + Laravel is fine

Huuuurrrr duuuuurrr PHP bad duuuurrrrr

Very mature opinion rit there

I moved to a static site generator, Hugo in this case, because I felt that WordPress was too much for a simple website with some articles.

WordPress itself isn't a problem. Leach away my FOSS fans. Heck, customization up the wazoo. For a developer, it's really really easy to make it your own. A competent developer can be taught WordPress CMS and understand what's under the hood within a few weeks.

Contributing back to WordPress? Getting harder and harder with Matt being the biggest barrier.

It's becoming one of those scenarios like Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Fuck those companies. But I'll build apps on your platform and play by your stupid ass rules to earn a living while also giving you the finger.

is Zope/Plone still a thing?

There's a fork of Wordpress which still has the old editor, which looks fine to me. I don't know anything about the people behind it though, and haven't yet tried it myself.

Just learn HTML?

/s

I actually don't mind Gutenberg, but I fucking hate how I have to do everything with buttons and interfaces and all the paid half baked plugins I have to either spend a week developing myself or pay 40 dollars a month just to Access it for a year in a single domain or site and have to make botched multi language multi site networks that can't even effectively share a theme and an awful theme that I was told was good but I can't even set a fucking sidebar so I go into the fucking theme folder and MODİFY TBE FUCKİNG THEME MFSELF FUCK J SHOULD'VE JUST USED HUGO

Interesting, I tried the migrator plugin on my basic 2 page site and none of my plugins or theme are compatible with ClassicPress. It wants me to drop all the way back to the 2017 base theme.

Great for a new site I suppose.

WordPress does provide a rest API, so you can do headless WordPress. It's essentially your content/data in JSON. From that point, you can do whatever.

The issue is you still need a CMS, or use WordPress.

wordpress has just gotten really shit. gutenberg forced onto users eventhough it is the worst rated plugin in history

meh I make entire sites with gutenberg, nothing was forced on me cuz I could have used (yuk) elementor.. I prefer not to